Discipline is pleased to announce a program of events in Melbourne from Tuesday 20 to Thursday 22 August to accompany the launch of its fifth volume, a joint issue with the periodical Más allá del fin, published by the feminist research collective Ensayos.
The joint issue — Discipline, Más allá del fin (translating to ‘discipline beyond the end’) — represents an effort to map a South–South relationship between Chile and Australia, and even more specifically, between its southernmost island tips: Tierra del Fuego and Tasmania. For centuries, the Northern imagination conceived of these places as the very personification of distance itself, whereas the editors of Más allá del fin refer to Tierra del Fuego as ‘the centre of the known universe’. In addition to publishing a range of essays on modern and contemporary art, this joint issue recentres and forges new connections between Southern perspectives, generating a dynamic and relational art history of the contemporary.
Melbourne Launch Program
Tuesday 20 – Thursday 22 August, 2019
Artist Film Workshop: Spectral Film
Tuesday, 20 August, 7pm
2 Kerr Street, Fitzroy
‘Spectral Film’ presents a series of films by artist Carolina Saquel (including the web series ‘DISTANCIA’) and other mystery films, all of which are discussed in the joint issue. Screened by Artist Film Workshop, and introduced by Carla Macchiavello and Camila Marambio, editors of ‘Más allá del fin’ Nº 3.
Film Screening with introduction by Carla Macchiavello
Wednesday, 21 August, 1pm
Monash Art, Design and Architecture Artforum
G104, Monash University, Caulfield campus
Carla Macchiavello will introduce the work of the late Chilean video artist Juan Downey, followed by a screening of his 1977 film, ‘The Abandoned Shabono’ (28 mins).
Lost in Translation: panel discussion with Camila Marambio, Rebecca Carland and John Kean with video participation from the Yaghan Community on Navarino Island
Wednesday, 21st August, 6–7:30pm
Melbourne Museum
11 Nicholson Street, Carlton
Co-presented with the Melbourne Museum, ‘Lost in Translation’ brings several contributing authors to ‘Más allá del fin’ Nº 3. together to discuss the awakening of a forgotten collection from South America by reconnecting to its source community, the Yaghan. This is a project led by Camila Marambio and the curator of history of collections at Museum Victoria, Rebecca Carland.
This is a paid event, tickets https://museumsvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/whats-on/lost-in-translation/
Talk: My Life in Slime with Sarah Lloyd
Thursday, 22 August, 4pm
Royal Melbourne Botanical Gardens
Mueller Hall, Melbourne Herbarium
Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne
A cellular slime moulds (myxomycetes) are amoebae, single-celled organisms that produce exquisitely beautiful spore-bearing ‘fruits’ visible to the naked eye. Slime moulds are usually studied by mycologists in academia who may undertake a relatively brief visit to a site where they gather organic material to culture in the laboratory. This talk describes a unique study of these unpredictable, ephemeral, miniscule organisms by a passionate naturalist with daily access to her study site: a tall wet eucalypt forest in central north Tasmania.
¡Ayayay! (From Eye to I to Ay!): Reflexive Translations and Video Bodies in Downey’s Videos and Beyond with Carla Macchiavello
Thursday, 22 August, 6pm
Royal Melbourne Botanical Gardens
Mueller Hall, Melbourne Herbarium
Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne
‘I wish to eroticise politics’, said Juan Downey in one of his notebooks when working on one of his best-known series of video works, ‘Video Trans Americas’ (1973–79). Eroticism was here understood as a larger human project of survival, needing inter-species, human-machine collaborations. Feedback would meet eros, the thinking I/eye would meet the feeling body/¡ay!, looping desire, longing, bodies, memories … Downey’s works have been analysed as part of larger North American networks that created feedback loops between art and anthropology (as both were working with audiovisual technologies and reflexivity), art and television/agency of media, art and science. But the connections between politics and eroticism have been largely downplayed by scholars, as have been other networks of peripheral collaborations, translating desire across cultures and bodies, cannibalising received histories. From his early works with machines and perception to his late works in which the body beats to the sound of political dissent and indigenous drums, translating and transferring languages and pulsations, another perhaps erotic map of video networks might be traced.
Discipline, Más allá del fin Launch!
Thursday, 22 August, 7.30pm
Royal Melbourne Botanical Gardens
Mueller Hall, Melbourne Herbarium
Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne
You are invited for a drink to celebrate the launch of ‘Discipline, Más allá del fin’.
Please note: Mueller Hall is wheelchair accessible by prior arrangement, email info@discipline.net.au
Discipline, Más allá del fin is edited by Helen Hughes and David Homewood (Discipline Nº 5); and Carla Macchiavello and Camila Marambio (Más allá del fin Nº 3). The joint issue is designed by Robert Milne.
Discipline, Más allá del fin has been supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and Monash Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University. With thanks to Ensayos, Artist Film Workshop (AFW), and Melbourne Museum.